TITLE: The Black Diamond
NAME: Thomas Texier
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: 101724.2132@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.mygale.org/04/ttexier/

TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: blckdmnd.jpg
ZIPFILE: blckdmnd.zip
RENDERER USED: Persistence of Vision Raytracer 3.0 ( POV-RAY 3.0 )
TOOLS USED: 
3D Studio release 4 for the modeling
            3DTO3D for the conversion
            Moray 2.5a for the layout
            Moray 2.5a and Texture Magic 0.95 for the textures
            The marvelous Nathan Kopp's Lens Flare include file v3.0
            Of course, POVRay 3.00e.watcom.Win32 ( Pov-Ray 3.0 for Windows )
            Finally, Adobe Photoshop 3.0.5 for the Jpeg compression and
            Paint Shop Pro 4 for my name.  

RENDER TIME: 6h 20m (A0.3)
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 16 Mo Ram Matrox Millenium 2mg Graphic Card

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
You are invited tonight to see the biggest black diamond of the world !

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
        First, I want to tell you that I'm only 13 years old and I'm French, so
my english
will surely be bad.

        I started this project under 3DS with the modeling of the base, it was
very long
because it's very detailed. After that, the glass globe was very simple : a
simple surface
of revolution. The diamond was easy : a surface of revolution with only 4
steps.
The rack is composed of a few boxes.

        I converted everything using 3DTO3D and I imported them in Moray. The
scaling was a
hard part, it took about 1 hour. I choosed the textures in the Pov-Ray library
but I modified
some of them.

        I wanted smooth shadows, so I putted an Aera Light; I wanted some dust,
so I putted
atmospheric effect and a Spot Light; I wanted more realism, so I putted a Lens
Flare. And of
course, there are reflections and refractions. Obviously, the Render Time grew
up very quickly.